Comments on: In The Weeds: More Than Six People Can’t Do Math http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/ Pop culture with an attitude Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mama H http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 Mama H Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:57:15 +0000 http://frothygirlz.com/?p=8922#comment-1561 I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blogs!!! I just found them today, I wish there was a way I could link "In the Weeds" to every website I visit and my Facebook page! I have been working in the industry for 22 years, I started at 15 as a salad bar girl at a Bonanza restaurant, do they still have those? From there I have worked as a busser, a cocktail waitress, hostess, caterer, banquet server, banquet coordinator, bartender but for the last 8 years I have been a server/trainer (in addition to my 40 hour per week State job I got using my degree in Criminal Justice) on the weekends at a world wide chain restaurant that starts with an A and ends with a Bee's. I can so totally identify with just about every topic you approach, kinda makes me want to start my own rant! There is a group on Facebook called "There is a Circle of Hell for people who tip 10% or less". You should check it out! If I could, I would pass national legislation that would require a unit on the service industry be added to all 8th grade social studies curriculum to teach our young folks about this stuff, if their parents don't know, at least they would be exposed in school!!! You down? I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blogs!!! I just found them today, I wish there was a way I could link “In the Weeds” to every website I visit and my Facebook page! I have been working in the industry for 22 years, I started at 15 as a salad bar girl at a Bonanza restaurant, do they still have those? From there I have worked as a busser, a cocktail waitress, hostess, caterer, banquet server, banquet coordinator, bartender but for the last 8 years I have been a server/trainer (in addition to my 40 hour per week State job I got using my degree in Criminal Justice) on the weekends at a world wide chain restaurant that starts with an A and ends with a Bee’s. I can so totally identify with just about every topic you approach, kinda makes me want to start my own rant! There is a group on Facebook called “There is a Circle of Hell for people who tip 10% or less”. You should check it out! If I could, I would pass national legislation that would require a unit on the service industry be added to all 8th grade social studies curriculum to teach our young folks about this stuff, if their parents don’t know, at least they would be exposed in school!!! You down?

]]> By: Slydo http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Slydo Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:16:37 +0000 http://frothygirlz.com/?p=8922#comment-1553 On the flip side, I once treated my people to a Christmas dinner at the local wing joint (I owned a dry cleaner - to my folks the place may as well have been the Capital Grille). Anyway, $600 tab and I leave a $150 tip. A week later I'm going over my receipts and see the 18% gratuity that had already been added, meaning I was tipping on the tip. All told, I left a 48% gratuity. Happy Holidays! On the flip side, I once treated my people to a Christmas dinner at the local wing joint (I owned a dry cleaner – to my folks the place may as well have been the Capital Grille). Anyway, $600 tab and I leave a $150 tip. A week later I’m going over my receipts and see the 18% gratuity that had already been added, meaning I was tipping on the tip. All told, I left a 48% gratuity. Happy Holidays!

]]> By: Bear http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 Bear Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:36:44 +0000 http://frothygirlz.com/?p=8922#comment-1519 I was fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on point of view) enough to wait tables in college and never forgot how many people it takes to put a really good meal on the customer's table and esecially a large group. 18% is a joke for parties of more than 6 and I believe in 30% as a reasonable tip. The second part of the tip is just as important though; smile, call your server by name, joke around good naturedly and show some courtesy and respect, just the same as you would like them to do with you. I was fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on point of view) enough to wait tables in college and never forgot how many people it takes to put a really good meal on the customer’s table and esecially a large group. 18% is a joke for parties of more than 6 and I believe in 30% as a reasonable tip. The second part of the tip is just as important though; smile, call your server by name, joke around good naturedly and show some courtesy and respect, just the same as you would like them to do with you.

]]> By: cj http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/comment-page-1/#comment-1512 cj Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:08:09 +0000 http://frothygirlz.com/?p=8922#comment-1512 Paige, Could not agree more! Love me some polishers...I always overtipped Jesus because he was amazing and had the most physically intolerable job in the house. And yet, he was always smiling. I'm simply saying that it is an absolutely INTEGRAL role at a restaurant like The Cap G, yet the company does not want to pay for it themselves. They would rather have the servers pay for it. Like you said, if servers have to polish, it takes time away from the guests and we can't find any clean steak knives when we desperately need them. So guests at a VERY expensive steakhouse can't have a clean knife unless the servers pay someone to clean them. Tuh huh? Love you as always and Merry Christmas Paige! CJ Paige,

Could not agree more! Love me some polishers…I always overtipped Jesus because he was amazing and had the most physically intolerable job in the house. And yet, he was always smiling. I’m simply saying that it is an absolutely INTEGRAL role at a restaurant like The Cap G, yet the company does not want to pay for it themselves. They would rather have the servers pay for it. Like you said, if servers have to polish, it takes time away from the guests and we can’t find any clean steak knives when we desperately need them. So guests at a VERY expensive steakhouse can’t have a clean knife unless the servers pay someone to clean them. Tuh huh?
Love you as always and Merry Christmas Paige!

CJ

]]> By: Paige http://frothygirlz.com/2009/12/22/in-the-weeds-more-than-six-people-can%e2%80%99t-do-math/comment-page-1/#comment-1498 Paige Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:49:55 +0000 http://frothygirlz.com/?p=8922#comment-1498 Charity, I like the article, but I will have to come to the defense of the polisher. On any given day, busy or slow, that is the one person that i would gladly pay my hard earned money to. You were never at the Grille when we had no polisher. After your shift was "done", you then had to spend another hour, sometimes more during the holidays after your shift to get caught up. Even more, you had to take time away from your tables to go back and polish throught the shift just to get the items needed. So again, the polisher is my best friend at the end of the night. :) Charity, I like the article, but I will have to come to the defense of the polisher. On any given day, busy or slow, that is the one person that i would gladly pay my hard earned money to. You were never at the Grille when we had no polisher. After your shift was “done”, you then had to spend another hour, sometimes more during the holidays after your shift to get caught up. Even more, you had to take time away from your tables to go back and polish throught the shift just to get the items needed. So again, the polisher is my best friend at the end of the night. :)

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